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On September 23, SPEAK held a meeting of epic proportions. It was a meeting to end all meetings. It was a meeting about peace. According to David King, executive dean of the Campolo School for Social Change, where the meeting was held, the day was about acknowledgement of the brokenness of this world and about […]

On September 13, about 25 students and faculty gathered in Barid Library to discuss the five-year anniversary of 9/11 from an analytical perspective. There were three speakers: Dr. Steven Boyer of the Christian studies department and Professor Bret Kincaid and Dr. Kathy Lee of the political science department. Kincaid spoke on the current state of

Sitting in a Gough dorm room last year, two Eastern students expressed their disgust for the high cost of college textbooks. They jokingly brought up the idea of starting a counter-business to give the bookstore a run for their money. Less than a year later, sophomores Ryan Ward and Justin Tomevi now have their own

CBS-3 filmed a segment of Healthwatch on September 18 in interim Dean of Arts and Sciences Betsy Morgan’s office on second floor McInnis. The segment is an advertisement for the new type-2 diabetes pill, Diachrome. This is not the first filming on campus. “We have had several catalogs shot here; Hartstrings is one,” Linda Olson

A ministry to people with AIDS recently reached Eastern. Dr. Rob MacGregor, emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, spoke about his experience with HIV/AIDS in Africa at Windows on the World on September 22. A slideshow of photos enhanced his account. Students and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania

Two new departments recently formed under the umbrella of the year-old performing arts division. One department consists of dance and theatre and the other of fine arts and music. The move, according to interim dean of arts and sciences Betsy Morgan, fills an organizational hole in Eastern’s academic structure. “These things are disciplines in their

As the leaves begin to change from green to orange and the weather changes from hot to cool, the department at Eastern that cleans up fallen leaves is also metamorphosing. On August 11, Carl Altomare was hired as executive director of campus services. Donna Macintosh, head of campus services, took responsibility for overseeing plant operations

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In the Northern Liberty section of Philadelphia, mere blocks from the projects, Eastern University students are attending core classes this fall. Eastern in the City is a two-year liberal arts program sponsored by the Campolo School for Social Change. According to Janeen Barlowe, program director, the mission of EIC is to “transform lives with rigorous,

Sarah McLachlan may think that love is better than ice cream, but if she ever visits Zwahlen’s Ice Cream and Chocolate Company, she may change her tune. Zwahlen’s is in Audubon, Pa., so the drive from campus is about 20 minutes. For someone in the mood for ice cream or chocolate, the drive is definitely